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Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use only the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, a cookie that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Type Purpose Expiry
CakePHP Strictly necessary A session cookie which determines whether a user has a session set – the session is used to log the user in. 30 days
csrfToken Strictly necessary A cross site request forgery prevention cookie. This is set to ensure requests are coming directly from the browser and not passing through a man in the middle machine to attempt to spoof another user's details. As long as the current session cookie lasts
userToken Strictly necessary Secondary identification of a user to the system. This cookie is only set when a user logs into the website and enables the server to identify the user. 30 days

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, this may affect your access to, or use of, our website (and other websites).